What are we watching now?

[laxu]

Always a great idea to call a film later in the series just "Jason Bourne".

I don't like the Bourne movies at all, yet I've seen at least the 3 first ones.

I hate how they are filmed.

Everything is grey, all action is jump cuts. It was a fresh looking effect in the 2nd film when they were fighting in the apartment, but they kept using that same thing for everything which just made it horrible. Then everyone else piggybacked onto that bullshit so they could make cheap action scenes.

On top of that the camera shakes like the cinematographer smokes a carton per day. Even in scenes where the camera should be entirely stationary.

They also regularly break direction of motion I think in the 3rd film or something. if a character runs from left to right, we expect them to continue like that in the next shot as well so we can follow the movement. Instead it can be left to right, right to left etc between shots because they keep spinning the angle until you have no idea what is happen.

 

[State of Epicicity]

I liked the one where he finds a woman at an embassy and falls in love with her.

That's the first one, The Bourne Identity. That's really the only one I like overall, although I remember a great fight scene in the second or third one.

 

[la szum]

Anyone else watch every season of The Last Kingdom?

How does it play out? Worth it?

I dove into the Series a couple of nights ago and enjoyed the first 5 episodes.

Total sucker for The Middle Ages.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Anyone else watch every season of The Last Kingdom?

How does it play out? Worth it?

I dove into the Series a couple of nights ago and enjoyed the first 5 episodes.

Total sucker for The Middle Ages.

It stays good to great till the end vs. Vikings whose peak is so obvious it's not even funny.

 

[la szum]

Thanks!

 

[megametal7]

Im watching Vikings on Netflix, I like it so far.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Finished up Deli Boys last night. Hilarious. If you like a super funny, quick watch crime comedy; this is your jam.

New Daredevil episodes are rolling along quite nice as well

 

[ᛗᛜᛜᚺDᛜᎶ Ꮤᛨᚳᚴ]

Over the past week or so, my girl and I watched "Adolescence"! As others have said, this was an incredible story and done in an incredible way. That acting was stellar (also already having been said but worth repeating IMO). The actor who plays the main character in this piece had never been in a film before (though he was discovered through his youth drama club) and did such an amazing job. Rolling Stone did an article on this series that I would highly recommend, especially the behind the scenes video showing and explaining how they pulled off some of this stuff!

 

[JiveTurkey]

Finished up this season of Reacher. Great show. Last episode was

 

[laxu]

We went to see Mickey 17. It was fun! Robert Pattison and Mark Ruffalo are fun to watch in this.

 

[BROCKSTAR]

Watching WHIPLASH on netflix. Seen it a few times, fantastic movie!

 

[norminal]

Watching WHIPLASH on netflix. Seen it a few times, fantastic movie!

Miles Teller is a great actor and will only get better with experience. J.K. Simmons is an absolute legend!

 

[State of Epicicity]

We just watched Boyz In The Hood from 1991. Man, I love Lawrence Fishburne here. He just has a way about him. And Cuba Gooding Jr. is just a great actor. The rest of the acting is uneven, but I really liked the film; it hit me. The score was shit though, really weird bad TV feel. And the director John Singleton was only 24! I'm glad to have seen it, and I'm curious about his other films now. I'll have to see Men Of Honor again now.

 

[State of Epicicity]

I meant to write more, that Men Of Honor is incredible. Gooding's performance truly is one of the most powerful I've seen in that. Even though de Niro is working in that film, and he's great, Gooding really steals the show; I'm now talking myself into seeing it again haha.

 

[State of Epicicity]

Last night we watched Ronny Chieng Love To Hate It. Man, that guy is fantastic. Hearing the shit that comes out of his mouth, with his accent, makes it even better. Netflix has two other specials from him, so I'm going to have to give them a try. I listen to The Daily Show podcast, but only the one episode a week that is hosted these days by Jon Stewart; now I know I'm missing out, since Chieng hosts many episodes. I don't think Jon Stewart is the funniest, but I do think he's smart as hell, and someone I love to hear ruminate on ideas. I also listen to his The Weekly Show podcast, which is not comedy at all. But Ronny Chieng is genuinely hilarious, so now I'm much more interested to find anything he's involved in.

 

[the swede]

I like the Bourne movies….

But it was many years since I saw them all and the “fresh” exciting thing that was different in every one of them (hated they swapped styles all the time)… may be a just a bunch of nice memories. I actually thought they should have kept the simplicity of the 1st movie, being somewhat “indie” and for the time had a nice “realistic” approach to action compared to the bloated action of that era.

 

[State of Epicicity]

Last night we watched Do The Right Thing. I felt like I was hit by a freight train. I'll be genuflecting to Spike Lee until I die. I had no idea he could be that great of a director. Truly one of the best films ever made. Such original, fresh, and powerful direction in every possible way; great writing; great acting. This is a goddamn masterpiece.

The weird thing is, I've seen a handful of his other films, and I didn't really like his directing in those; now I have to reasses bigtime. This to me felt like the equivalent in acting for what it must have been for the audience that saw Marlon Brando on stage for the first time, someone who changes everything and sets a new bar for what is possible.